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Re: Install of BDE hangs up on Win10 (Delphi4 Pro)

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On 12/10/2017 9:31 AM, JJ wrote:
> On Sat, 9 Dec 2017 15:20:54 -0500, P E Schoen wrote:
>> I have an application written in Delphi 4 Pro, that uses the Borland
>> Database Engine (BDE). When I installed Delphi on my Win10 machine, it hung
>> up during the BDE install. I unchecked the option and it installed OK.
>> However, the BDE seemed to have been installed, and my application was able
>> to build and run OK with the database functions.
>>
>> The setup file I created using Inno Setup includes a section where it uses
>> "minireg.exe" to install the BDE by running "bdeinst.dll" which was
>> extracted from the bdeinst.cab file and included in the setup. It also hangs
>> up, but apparently completes the installation in
>>
>> C:\Program Files (x86)\Common Files\Borland Shared\BDE
>>
>> On the Inno Setup website I found a suggestion to use a newer install
>> "bde511en.exe", which I found and downloaded on the Softonics website. It
>> runs OK on Win10 (and Win8) but it is only for updating a previous BDE
>> install. So I have kept the original bdeinst.dll in my setup, and informed
>> customers that it will hang up on Win10, but clicking on the dialog box
>> allows Windows to close it and proceed.
>>
>> I don't know just what is involved in the BDE install. I could easily copy
>> the files that I find in the BDE folder to the new installation, but there
>> seem to be some registry entries as well, and it's difficult to find all the
>> instances (a search also finds hex BDE). I don't know why Win10 is having
>> problems - I have checked folder permissions and they seem identical for
>> Win8 and Win10. I have done a search and found a few ideas, but nothing that
>> solves the problem.
>>
>> TIA,
>>
>> Paul
> 
> Try download BDE v5.2.0.2 from here:
> 
> http://www.all2ezy.com/pages/developer_downloads.php
> 
> I've checked that it installed fine. BDE Administrators seems to work fine
> too. But I haven't actually tested the BDE functionality.
> 
That seems to work just fine. It installs in a new directory C:\BDE32 
but my application runs with no apparent problems and no changes were 
needed.

Now I just need to figure out how to incorporate this in my Inno Setup 
script. It might be as simple as copying the zip file to the {tmp} 
directory and then running the setup file within the zip file. I have 
tried various ways to do this, but so far I've been unable to get Inno 
Setup to extract the files from the zip file. Any ideas?

Thanks!

Paul

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Install of BDE hangs up on Win10 (Delphi4 Pro) "P E Schoen" <paul@pstech-inc.com> - 2017-12-09 15:20 -0500
  Re: Install of BDE hangs up on Win10 (Delphi4 Pro) Marco van de Voort <marcov@toad.stack.nl> - 2017-12-10 12:34 +0000
  Re: Install of BDE hangs up on Win10 (Delphi4 Pro) JJ <jj4public@vfemail.net> - 2017-12-10 21:31 +0700
    Re: Install of BDE hangs up on Win10 (Delphi4 Pro) P E Schoen <paul@peschoen.com> - 2017-12-10 20:41 -0500
      Re: Install of BDE hangs up on Win10 (Delphi4 Pro) P E Schoen <paul@peschoen.com> - 2017-12-10 22:53 -0500

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